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I'll be hosting "Rural Electric" from 7-9 pm tonight, leading into FreeForm Radio at 9 pm. My playlist will include country music from New Zealand as well as a number of excellent singer-songwriters.
Our first featured release tonight is an excellent hour of electronic music from Nigel Mullaney.
Our thanks to Ian Boddy and DiN for providing us with a promo copy of this release.
The last year has shown all of us how fragile our existence is and how vital it is to nurture a physical and artistic connection to creativity and those that surround us. The Turning is an album that was forged from the concepts and ideas first explored in the album “31 Days” (DiN61), a desire to capture the raw emotion of a live electronic performance coupled with the expression of Jonathan Jowett’s piano playing and Mullaney's work with the Elemental Chamber Orchestra. Modular & Moog synthesizers were used to assemble a deep sonic palette that reflects the emotional concepts of the album fused with a variety of studio sessions, acoustic recordings and Elektron machines. The tracks were all mixed on to a vintage Ampex ATR-102 using an SSL desk and numerous vintage outboard equipment.
The 10 tracks on this album, whilst dominated by modular textures and sequences take this style of composition to new heights in their truly widescreen cinematic landscapes. The opener “Lost At Sea” is a beautiful example of how to create such a journey in under seven minutes. The following eight pieces take the listener on an emotional travelogue before succumbing to the blissful closing of the album with “Nostalgia Bomb”.
DiN label boss Ian Boddy curated the track selection and running order to create an electronic music album full of emotional complexity and hope.
credits
All tracks composed, programmed and recorded by Nigel Mullaney August 2020 - January 2021.
Instruments:
Moog, Eurorack Modular, Elektron, Korg & Taylor T5 Guitar
The Elemental Chamber Orchestra
Jonathan Paul Jowett - Piano
Special thanks to:
Jonathan Paul Jowett - Phoenix Creative Media Ltd
Ian Boddy - DiN Records
Wendy Carroll - DiN Records
Ben Wilson - DivKid
Robin Rimbaud - Scanner
Dan Wahlbeck - DPW design
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This new Eighth Tower Records project, dedicated to the Lucio Fulci’s “Trilogy Of Death”, a unique and unrepeatable corpus in the history of Italian “supernatural cinema”, tries to imagine an alternative soundtrack for those movies. The several souls of Fulci’s movies are evoked by the musicians - Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati, Daniel Ferreira (Kloob), Leonardo Granchi (Bad Girl), Cristiano Bocci, Paolo Acquaviva (DuoSerpe), Sara Fontana, Dario Arrighi (Progetto No Name) - through a variety of music styles (electroacoustic, dark ambient, concrete music, progressive rock, drone music). Some of them kept in mind the lesson of the master Fabio Frizzi, the well known composer of the original soundtracks, while others escaped any attempt to revive that glorious tradition and interpreted Fulci’s horror universe in a totally contemporary and unedited way.
credits
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Edited by Eighth Tower Records
Illustrations: ©John Chadwick 2016 - 2021
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